All about me lay the scattered, shattered remains – here the severed head, there a leg, stripped of flesh, next to the road another head, ten feet away a razor-taloned foot, wing and tail. Whatever had happened here had been brief and incredibly brutal.
Over the last few years, Paul Kelly has performed a series of unique shows under the banner ‘A to Z’, whereby he sings 100 songs from his catalogue in alphabetical order over 4 nights.
The main reason for my travel to Warmun was to get a better look at the work of, and make contact with several of the local artists who paint bird stories grounded in the local landscape and culture.
Roadkill will come in handy when next you run into a Black Kite as it lifts, engorged with rotting flesh and on struggling wings, off a carcass on the roadside – or when you run into a wombat, a snake, a horse…you get the drift.
I’ll be travelling back up the wonderful Stuart Highway later this week en-route to home in the south-west NT and will drop in to the Iwantja Arts Centre at Indulkana in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (commonly known as the APY lands) lands of northern South Australia on the way.
I don’t know a lot about the [...]
…sometimes it seems from White’s journal entries and from the letters in Selborne that just about everyone abroad in the Hampshire countryside was armed and looking to shoot something.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Animals, Some places I've been, Writing and writers
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Tagged BBC 4, Complete Works of Shakespeare, Gilbert White, John Mayfield, Micahel Wood, Moose, Paul Foster, Pilgrim's Progress, Selborne, Storyteller's World, The Bible, The Century That Made Us, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, The Naturalist's Journal, Thomas Pennant Esq, Wakes
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The latest edition of the National Library Magazine, from the Australian National Library in Canberra has a fascinating article by Penny on the life and works of the French naturalist and ornithologist François le Vaillant.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Animals, Art, Birds, Birds and people, Writing and writers
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Tagged Australian National University, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dr Penny Olsen, Feather and Brush, François le Vallaint, Glimpses of Paradise: The Quest for the Beautiful Parrakeet, Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, National Library Magazine, Natural History Museum Leiden, Wedgetailed Eagle
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April 16, 2009 – 12:57 am
The NT Writers’ Centre will run the annual Alice Springs Writers Festival, named ‘Eye of the Storm’ in Alice Springs from May 1 to 4 2009.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Art, Uncategorized, Writing and writers
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Tagged Ali Cobby Eckermann, Alice Springs, Eye of the Storm, Jennifer Byrne, Jennifer Mills, Kate Grenville Shane Maloney, Linda Jaivin, NT Writers Centre, Olive Pink Botanic Gardens, Shellie Morris
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